I get it. People like to post juicy and tantalizing and controversial topics. Often they insert bold and loud thread titles to get people’s blood boiling. This is the M.O. of some posters’ entire posting history.
But how about some of the site admins and founders not add to this dumbing down of this site? Obviously ginning up more juicy and spicy topics serves the advertisers well – but some site associated people’s recent string of threads is mind numbing and frankly sacrifices intellectual discourse and solid advice sharing over controversy and flaming. Citing extremely weak info just to get more clicks.
I’m sick of all the polictico non-sense memes on FB. While some can’t be avoided here, can’t the people who own/run the site keep from adding to the sepsis of idiot threads too? Is it too much to ask that we TRY to keep it to advising one another on college admissions rather than worry about some sentence., buried in a handbook distributed by Cornell might or might not be politically correct?
Good morning…are you referring primarily to threads which are featured? Feel free to send me via PM one example of this user’s recent string of threads. I do agree we want titles to connect well with the content. I’ve run across many a YouTube video that promised one thing in the title, but delivered something else much less satisfying. It can be frustrating.
Agree completely, and suspect that OP and I have the same user in mind. Really, posting four threads with “opinion” pieces within an hour that are blatantly click-bait in one forum? Would any other user not have been banned for this already? I especially loathe it when it is in the College Life forum because no one is actually interested in the threads this user posts - if anyone responds, they are parent users, not college students. Can we quit all this spamming because I agree it’s frankly obnoxious.
I know exactly who you guys are talking about and agree completely. I can’t complain because I’ve already been warned by that particular admin for contributing to a negative environment.
I think CC admins should be above posting things from the likes of the NY Post.